Farrowing house



May 17, 1932. w. 'D. BAYLEY FARROWING HOUSE Filed April 22. 1929 INVENTOR ATTORNEYS Patented May 17, 1932 PATENT OFFICE" 'WILLIAM J). BAYLEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO TEAIRROWING HOUSE Application filed April 22, 1929. Serial No. 357,050.

This invention relates to farrowing houses for sows and their pigs, it more particularly relating to a structure which has separated hovering spaces for the pigs in communication with the pens, together with heating means for the hovering spaces.

An object of my invention is to provide unitary structure containingseparated hov-.

ering spaces and a heating means therefor to which unitary structure may be readily attached a plurality of hog houses in such a waythat the hovering spaces will be in communication with the pens of the houses. 1

Other advantages and objects will appear 7 from the following description andcl-aims.

In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a plurality of hog houses grouped .about a common hovering and heating unit, illustrating the embodiment of my improvements both as to the construction of the unit and the arrangement of the houses therearound.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a schematic nature illustrating the relation of the nursery pens with the several houses.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged partial transverse section on the line 33 of Fig.2. 7

Fig. 4 is an enlarged partial longitudinal section on the line H of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a horizontal section in reduced scale on the line 55 of Fig. 4..

' Fig. 6 is an end elevation of a modification as to the type of house that may be employed with the hovering and heating unit as described.

Fig. 7 is a partial longitudinal section of the line 7-7 of Fig. 6. r

liig. 8 is a reduced scale elevation of a detai f Referring to the drawings, and especially at this time to Fig. 2, a portable enclosure, indicated in general by the numeral 1, containing pig hovering spaces and a stove S, is

placed on the ground, and a portable hog house placed at either open end thereof. The

preferable construction of the hovering and stove enclosure is as herein shown, and the preferable grouping of houses about such an enclosure is also illustrated, it being understood that in the present-case the preferred than the other so as to give to the roof a slope to provide a water shed for rain or snow. In the higher half of the roof, 5 a superstructure 6 is attached having a sloping roof 6, the height of which is somewhat dependent on thetype of stove S which is placed on the floor 2 under this roof 6.

The stove S may be of any suitable kind,

but is here shown as thewell-known type brooder stove, and to permit access thereto for feeding purposes the roof 6 is provided -with a fairly large aperture, over which a removable cover 7 is placed. The stove S has a flue 8 which passes upwardly through a thimble 9 secured in the roof member 6. Each open end of the structure thusformed is partially closed by a triangular strip 10 of sheet metal extending across the gables, its lower edge 11 being sufficiently high to allow the young pigs to pass thereunder.

The portable houses in which the sows are kept during the farrowing time are placed against the open ends of the hovering and heating enclosure 1. In Fig. 1 two houses are shown, these being indicated generally as 12 and 13. These houses may be the houses which the hog grower has on hand or may be new houses furnished with the hover and heating unit. In the latter event, the houses for reasons of economy in manufacture, are

preferably. alike. and, in the present instance each is divided into two pens by a partition formed of horizontal slats 14 and vertical battens 16, a fragment of one such partition being shown in the house 12.

Thus two houses so divided allow for the reception of four sows, and through an opening 17 in the end walls 18 of the houses 12 and 13, the young pigs may enter the hovering and heating enclosure 1 where their comfort in unseasonable weather is assured by the deflected and radiated heat from the stove S. Access to the stove enclosure 1 through the openings 17 is permitted the young pigs at all times, regardless of the position of the 5 sow, there being a horizontal rail 19 in each house, more clearly shown in the house 12 in Fig.1. This rail 19 is spaced apart i'rom the end wall 18:.and is at asuflicientcelevation above the floor 20 of the houses to permit the pigs to pass thereunder, but exclude the sow, and is secured in any suitable way to retain it in its position.

The floor space of the enclosure'1 is di- Vided into a plurality "of T:horering :spaces or pens by partitions. These partitions not only m few days after the pigs are farrowed.

A :partition 21is secured to the floor 2 and e'xtends longitudinally through thestove en- -e'losure 1, from one open end tothe other, and-forms a continuation or" the house parti- :tions referred to as theslatsl l. A partition 22*is centrally located extending from the pantiti'on2l to the 'wall 3 thus providing a pair of pens A and B (Fig. 5)" to which; the litters-ofthe sows in' the right hand end pens of the houses 1-2 and 18 may resort, while partitions 23 and 24, secured' tc the'gpartition 21" 'a:nd to-the"wall 4 provide'pens C and D accessible-to the left hand pens in the houses "12 and"13,-and also provide 'between'them a space "E for the stove and accessibility thereto for the removal of ashes. The partition-s 23' 'and 24: are preferab'lypertorated to allow a greater proportion of radiate d heat- --'slope otthe roof 5 assures ampleWar1I1th in the =pens-A and B by downwa-rddefle'ction of the heated 'air'currents.

.The side walls "3 and-4 aswell as the-roof" 7 lower half of the roof 5 has a southly expo sure, there being a large aperture therein coveredbya-removablecover 25, which cover maybe removed 1n bright Weather to permit the young pigs to receive the beneficialefiects ef direct sunlight, and to accustom them to "theco'lderoutside air. This cover-25 preferably includes material suitabletoiadm it the to escape to the pens C and D, while the an arrangement of a hovering and stove en- I closure substantially as described previously,

about which is grouped four separate houses 26 of a type known as-vA-houses. In this event the character .oiQtheu sheet. metal strips 10, Fig. 1, is altered to conform to that shown in detail in Fig. 8, in order to close the ends of the stove' enclosure between the pairs of houses. Openings 28 in the sheet 29 are pr0- vided and in alignment with these, apertures 3O areleut intheend walls adjacent the stove enclosure 1. In this Fig. 6 a modification is filSOfShONNeIl an the term :of the superstri'lcture by which :therhei'ght of the superstructure, in- "dicated' at 6 is sueh as 1110 :accommodate the attendant to enable the" attachment to center the superstructure and :have access to the stove for replenishing-fuel, removing ashes .iaindso forth. .In this casetheou'ter side wall 6f "the:superstructure will be provided with a "(door :(not- Sh'OWIlz).

By this arrangement it will be seen that I havedevised'a simple, inexpensive means for supplying-heated hovering spaces "forvand .artificial ".hBEtt to "a plurality of far-rowing houses, employingva minimum' of :new maillellzal', and permitting, '=to :agreat extent, the

use of existing field-houses. Aufll1ilh81 sav- Zingiin material 'isfefi'ected by limiting the :size of theustov'e :enclosureto shut little amore than that needed iior the. stove *i5tself, with 'ample' hovering "space thereaboutwtoaccomtm odateg'the :seve'ral litters of very-young pi gs.

The structure as a whole is readily :port- .ilble reason of the: fact that the central heating and pighoveringstructure whitih is of a portable character mayibe'reafdil'y sep'ar vratecl from 'the houses, which-=aresalso of a portable character, so 1 that the entire" strucit-ure can be moved: from-place to place. as oocasion demandsifor -sanitary reasons.

-I-Havingthus described my invention,

claim "1. Anenelosed unitary structure having a plurality of separated hovering spaces for pigs and a'heatmgmeans theneln, III-"001111160- ti on with a plurality of separate hog'houses :a ll a rranged about said unitary/structure each in communlcationwi'th one of the hover- 5 ing spaces of said structure, the communication between each hog house and its associated hovering space-being=such-as to ex- "clude mature hogs 'fror'nfthe hovering space.

2. A portable enclosed structure having a plurality of separatedhoverin'g spaces" for pigs and: a heating means therein wit h the hovering spaces arranged about said-heating means, in connection with?! plurality ofportable separate :hog houses alliarrangedeabout said u nita-ryistru'cture each in communication :with one=of the hovering spaces of said struci ture, thecommunication between each hog house and its associated hovering space being such as to exclude mature hogs from the hovering space.

3. An enclosed structure having a stove therein, a low-down substantially central partition extending entirely across said structure in one direction on one side of said stove, a single cross partition on one side of said central partition dividing that part of the structure into two hovering spaces, and two other cross partitions on the opposite side of said central partition dividing that part of said structure into two hovering spaces and a stove space, in connection with a plurality of separate hog houses arranged about said structure each in communication with one of said hovering spaces.

4. An enclosed structure having a stove therein, a low-down substantially central partition extending entirely across said structure in one direction on one side of said stove, a single cross partition on one side of said central partition dividing that part of the structure into two hovering spaces, and two other cross partitions on the opposite side of said central partition dividing that part of said structure into two hovering spaces and a stove space, in connection with a plurality of separate hog houses arranged about said structure each in communication with one of said hovering spaces, said last mentioned cross partition being of a foraminous character.

5. An enclosed structure having side walls, end walls and a roof, said end walls being open on their under edges, partitions in said structure dividing the same into a plurality of hovering spaces, heating means in said structure, and a plurality of separate hog houses all arranged about said structure each in communication with one of the hovering spaces of said structure, the communication between each hog house and its associated hovering space being such as to exclude mature hogs from the hovering space.

6. An enclosed unitary structure having a plurality of separated hovering spaces for pigs and a heating means therein, in connec tion with a plurality of separate hog houses all arranged about said unitary structure with a pen in each of said houses, each of said houses having a hovering space in the end thereof communicating with its pen and also with one of the hovering spaces of said unitary structure. the communication between the pen and hovering space of each house being such as to exclude mature hogs from the hovering space.

7. An enclosed unitary structure having a plurality of separated hovering spaces for pigs and a heating means therein, in connection with a plurality of separate houses all arranged about said unitary structure with a pen in each of said houses, each of said houses having a hovering space in the end thereof communicating with its pen and also with one of the hovering spaces of said unitary structure, the hovering space in each house being formed by a low down horizontal railextending transversely across the house.

8. An enclosed portable structure, the walls of said structure being provided with a plurality of openings at the floor level of a size to permit the passage therethrough of baby animals but exclude large animals, said structure having a plurality of hovering spaces one for each opening with which the openings communicate, a plurality of houses for larger animals surrounding said structure, said openings furnishing communica tion between the hovering space of said structure and said houses.

9. An enclosed structure having a plurality of division walls separating the same into a heating compartment and a plurality of nursery compartments, said division walls being arranged to permit said nursery compartments to be heated from said heating compartment, said heating compartment being accessible from one side of said structure, a removable cover arranged in the roof of said structure, said nursery compartments being arranged so that access may be secured thereto from each end of said structure, and a plurality of houses arranged at the ends of the structure, with the houses in communication with corresponding nursery compartments, and means in said houses for excluding large animals from said nursery compartments.

10. A plurality of houses having pens for larger animals, a separate enclosed structure with which all of said houses are in communication, means for heating said enclosed structure, and a plurality of separated nur- I sery compartments located partly in said enclosed structure and partly in said houses, and means in said houses for excluding the larger animals from said nursery compartments.

11. An enclosed portable structure consisting of a floor, sides and a roof, the floor being utilized as a nursery space for baby animals and divided into a plurality of nursery compartments, there being openings in the side walls of said structure leading from said compartments of a size to permit the passage therethrough of baby animals but exclude large animals, a removable cover for said roof, and a plurality of houses surrounding said structure, each house being in communication with a nurserycompartment through the opening leading thereto.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of April, 1929.

WILLIAM D. BAYLEY.

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